Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Managua's sun-baked plaza, cadets from the military academy paraded one day last week in spotless white uniforms. Bands tooted the national anthem and the drums beat out a salute as President Victor Roman y Reyes and his boss and nephew, General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans...
...National Palace, Nicaragua's Constituent Assembly awaited them with the product of five months' labor-a new constitution. President Roman solemnly accepted it, then watched nephew Anastasio sworn in as a lifetime Senator, under a tailor-made constitutional provision that awards such honor to all ex-Presidents...
...Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
...Managua, Nicaragua, Dictator and ex-President Anastasio Somoza watched a Nicaragua v. Cuba baseball game start falling to pieces as fighting broke out, restored order singlehanded in a characteristic way. He pulled out his gat and let go a couple of warning blasts...
Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...